The BA and Al-Azhar Co-organize a Seminar on Cultural Consensus
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The BA and Al-Azhar co-organize on Sunday, 23 October 2011, a seminar entitled “Cultural Consensus in Light of Al-Azhar Declaration” at the Al-Azhar International Conference Center, Nasr City, Cairo.
Al-Azhar Grand Imam Dr. Ahmed Al-Tayeb and Dr. Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria will give the opening addresses. The seminar will also feature speeches by Dr. Ahmed Kamal Abu El-Magd; Dr. Abdallah ben Beh, Vice President of the International Union of Muslim Scholars; Shiite Scholar Hany El-Fahs; Dr. Mohamed Kamal El-Din Imam, Professor of Law, Alexandria University; Dr. Mona Abu Zeid, Professor of Islamic Philosophy, Helwan University; and Dr. Sameh Fawzy, Deputy Director of the BA Dialogue Forum.
The seminar will explore sound basis for national consensus in light of the principles and guidelines stipulated in Al-Azhar Declaration, with special emphasis on the establishment of a modern State, supporting citizenship and freedom of expression, and improving education.
To view Al-Azhar Declaration, please click here.